Second chance; the shelter for teenage mothers in Kaduna
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The Citizens’ Movement Enforcing the Law on the Police
EDO, NIGERIA: One afternoon in April 2024, Jessyking Alabi, 21, went out to power his mobile phone. He became more dependent on the mobile...
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KATSINA, NIGERIA: It was a cold, breezy morning in April 2023 when Ma’aru Ishak, 15, embarked on what he called his longest adventure. The...
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LAGOS, NIGERIA: On September 9, 2023, Akpan's* household, which includes his wife and two daughters, experienced a cooking gas explosion in their kitchen that...
Amid An Intense Election Cycle, An Initiative Made Voting Easy For Nigeria’s Senior Citizens
OYO, NIGERIA: Toyin Olukoya, 68, loves to vote. She has been an active voter in Nigeria’s election processes for some thirty years. Olukoya became passionate about voting during her teenage years when she witnessed how a single vote made all the difference she needed, “... and I told myself that...
The Race To Make Cocoa More Sustainable
Chocolate is one of the world’s biggest reasons for deforestation, and a small initiative in Nigeria is trying to change that By Olatunji Olaigbe and...
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Solutions Journalism and Resilience, Titilope’s Story
Titilope Fadare said it felt like a ‘miracle’ after she got accepted to the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) 2021 Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) using a mix of resilience and solutions journalism in her reporting.
Maintaining Inter-religious Peace: The Yelwa Kagadama Example
By Elizabeth Kah Nange BAUCHI, NIGERIA: On December 12, 2007, amidst the smoke and chaos of a horrifying inter-religious clash between Muslims and Christians in Yelwa Kagadama community, Bauchi State, Hussein Yahaya, 43, recalled being instructed by his father to stay at home with the family. Despite the warning, Yahaya...
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